TEXT:Senator John Kerry will replace outgoing pro-abortion Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. All but Senators Cruz and Cornyn of Texas and Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma voted to confirm Kerry.

Maybe you know about the famous college football player who was duped into believing that a girl on the Internet liked him and how, responding to this ongoing hoax, the football player was tragically hurt by her supposed death. And by now you’re wondering why a newscast on the life issue is telling you about this. The Media Research Center analyzed the coverage of this story and of the March for Life and found that the hoax got over 500 times the coverage that half a million citizens received for marching on the nation’s capital.

Other stories you’ll find at lifenews.com… The Obama administration has approved the morning after pill to be dispensed through a vending machine to college students at a Pennsylvania university. The Texas Heart Institute is literally growing human hearts using adult stem cells. And there is the story of a pro-life Oregon doctor who lost one of his patients when another doctor-operating under Oregon law- pushed the patient, who was suffering from depression, into the use of barbiturates to commit suicide.

On the occasion of the president’s inauguration to a second term, pro-life groups say President Obama brings a stark contrast to a second term: a large pro-abortion record and a small approval rating. Gallup polling finds the president’s first-term approval rating is the lowest of any post-World War II president.

The president’s motorcade was forced to confront pictures of babies victimized by abortion. The exposure of graphic images was arranged by Created Equal.

On the 40th anniversary of the Roe V Wade decision legalizing all abortion, pro-lifers can celebrate the closure of 1500 abortion clinics over the past 22 years. There were nearly 2200 abortion clinics in 1991; now there are less than 700 and that number is falling.

Nevertheless, a St. Louis Planned Parenthood abortion business had its fourth botched abortion in recent weeks. As pro-life advocates tried to document the injuries, clinic staffers attempted to conceal matters.

Over the weekend, what has been billed as the largest pro-life rally in the history of Ireland took place as more than 30,000 pro-life people gathered to hold political leaders accountable for pledging to oppose abortion.